Weegy: B. impending doom User: Read the following passage from "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" by Bret Harte.
"The road to Sandy Bar- a camp that, not having as yet experienced the regenerating influences of Poker Flat, consequently seemed to offer some invitation to the emigrants- lay over a steep mountain range. It was distant a day's severe travel. In that advanced season, the party soon passed out of the moist, temperate regions of the foothills into the dry, cold, bracing air of the Sierras. The trail was narrow and difficult. At noon the Duchess, rolling out of her saddle upon the ground, declared her intention of going no farther, and the party halted.
The spot was singularly wild and impressive. A wooded amphitheater, surrounded on three sides by precipitous cliffs of naked granite, sloped gently toward the crest of another precipice that overlooked the valley."
"The Outcasts of Poker Flat" by Bret Hart, 1869
Harte's vivid descriptions of the outcasts' travels creates a sense of
A. bright optimism.
B. impending doom.
C. happy camaraderie.
D. suspenseful mystery.
Weegy: B. impending doom User: Which archetype does Piney represent?
A. the innocent
B. the heroine
C. the messenger
D. the star-crossed lover Weegy: D. the star-crossed lover User: Read the sentence, and then answer the question.
"He now proposed to narrate the principal incidents of that poem- having thoroughly mastered the argument and fairly forgotten the words- in the current vernacular of Sandy Bar."
"The Outcasts of Poker Flat" by Bret Hart, 1869
What is the best meaning of vernacular as it is used in the sentence?
A. poetry
B. dialect
C. vocabulary
D. expression
Weegy: B. Dialect (More)